RE: Renaming a branch

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> From: Jeremy Mordkoff [mailto:jlm_at_ZeeVee.Com]
> Sent: 08 September 2010 14:33
> To: Giulio Troccoli; users_at_subversion.apache.org
> Subject: RE: Renaming a branch
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> > > Is there a safe way to rename a branch? I'm worried about all my
> > > mergeinfo's
> >
> > If you have merged only from trunk and haven't merged from this
> branch, I don't see a problem
> > in using s imple svn mv.
> >
> I wish it was that simple
>
> branches/rel_2_5_3 merges to branches/rel_2_5 which merges to trunk
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> I want to rename rel_2_5 to rel_2_6

rel_5_2 has *only* received merges, either from trunk or any other branch, is that correct? Then again a move is sufficient. The mergeinfo in the new branch, rel_2_6, will refer to rel_2_5_3 which you are not renaming. The problem would be if you had merged rel_2_5 to, let's say, rel_3_0. In that case you would need to edit the svn:mergeinfo property (using svn propedit not svn propset).

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Received on 2010-09-08 15:37:26 CEST